Dr Heather Came

Te Tiriti based futures + Antiracism is going to be fab. Register www.tiritibasedfutures.info Also check out our HC & A honourable kāwanatanga PechaKucha inspired organisational Tiriti journeys extravaganza - 18 organisations sharing their stories. Scan the QR code and/or email Joyaratima@gmail.com

Looking forward to speaking at this gathering about our Honourable Kāwanatanga project with Clive Aspin. Some interesting speakers in the lineup if anyone is keen to join us.

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Join us.

Critical Tiriti Analysis: Why the Health Workforce Plan Still Falls Short Workforce development is vital for achieving equitable health outcomes for Māori. For decades, Māori have called for more Indigenous practitioners, as Māori-led care consistently produces higher quali...

New Critical Tiriti Analysis (CTA) paper out examining the 2023-4 Health workforce plan and its (mal)alignment with the elements of Te Tiriti o Waitangi; with Haidee Renata, Carlton Irving and Maria Baker. #CriticalTiritiAnalysis
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Not too late to register for the regular or the advanced Critical Tiriti Analysis trainings...

Join us at our next Critical Tiriti Analysis webinar to coincide with the Te Tiriti based futures conference. This community of practice focuses on the Health & Disability Commission in their mahi on the Code of Health and Disability Rights. Email us on CriticalTIritiAnalysis@gmail.com.

We are editing a book about Honourable kāwanatanga in the context of the global south. We are extending our expressions of interest to 30 March. Please share.
Editors: Mershen Pillay - PILLAYM1@ukzn.ac.za; Leah Waipuka-Bain - kopuconsulting@gmail.com; Clive Aspin clivea@me.com

For those of you planning up a storm. Don't forget to register for our regular CTA training if you haven't already. If you are our alumni why not supersize that training with some advanced CTA training a chance to learn what is new and interesting in the field. Email joyaratima@gmail.com

Anyone made new years resolutions about knocking off some academic publications... Check out our course.

Looking forward to being part of this session with Mereana Pitman Te Tiriti Based Futures + Anti-Racism registrations open now Register here - lnkd.in/ebGRpMDp

If you are in Auckland around Waitangi come and join us for a poetic celebration of crone Mitzi Nairn.

Foraged from our walk.

How about this:
Critical public health begins with self-reflection on how public health has been formed from & incorporated, institutional aspects of domination, White supremacy, patriarchy, capitalism, individualism, consumption, colonisation, racism, meritocracy & global health ‘enshittification’.

The Side Eye: The Table Why is New Zealand's wealth hoarded at one end of the nation's dinner table? Toby Morris of @TheSpinoffTV explains

Luxon has a plan. It looks like this. 6 plates for him, 1 plate between 5 at the other end of the divide he’s widened. I don’t misunderstand him. I see him. #nzpol #hoarder interactives.stuff.co.nz/the-side-eye...

Pretty disappointing

First there was regular Critical Tiriti Analysis and then there was Advanced Critical Tiriti Analysis - come join us for a more robust conversation - how to apply CTA across your organisation... still spots available at Antiracism people leaders wānanga a chance to take a deep dive.

Higher taxi costs for disabled, elderly as Total Mobility subsidy cut Transport Minister Chris Bishop said subsidies would drop from 75% to 65% from July 1, 2026, blaming unsustainable rising costs.

This cut to Total Mobility on top of a cost-of-living crisis will only aggravate hardship in an already struggling population.

Support Rangatahi and Whānau Affected by the Ban on Puberty Blockers Raising funds to support rangatahi directly affected by the New Zealand Government’s decision to ban new prescriptions of puberty blockers.

Support Rangatahi and Whānau Affected by the Ban on Puberty Blockers #nzpol

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Great t-shirt

Holding space: Disability, families, and collective hope beyond neoliberalism. University of Otago Critical Disability Studies Research Network seminar series

We need to a reorient away from individualised notions of “resilience” towards shared accountability, relational ethics, and structural transformation.

Read more:

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Our article in today's NZ Medical Journal - a disgraceful story of structural racism in NZ health policy. It highlights govt refusal to address a glaring inequity despite clear evidence and sustained advocacy. The result is avoidable disease and mortality for Māori and Pacific people.

Say what now?!

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

Thank you

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Fascinating article

Te Tiriti as Methodology: Research as Relationship, Research as Resistance Te Tiriti o Waitangi has always been far more than a historical artefact to me. It is a living document that sets out the ethical architecture for how we might live together in Aotearoa. Increasingly,...

An interesting contribution to Te Tiriti scholarship by Dr Ngaire Rae - Te Tiriti as a research methodology. Pleased to be a contributor to this piece.

Clive Aspin & myself are co-ordinating a special issue of Sites focusing on Dimensions of Honourable Kāwanatanga. We are keen to hear others perspective on this kaupapa - we are intentionally looking to the future but with a critical awareness of past dishonourable practice.

Still a chance to register for our HC & A annual antiracism people leaders wānanga. Come join us for some holistic professional development to start the new year. Check out this blog about last years one. tinyurl.com/ypauhkn3

He is sitting four seats down from me at the Koru club what would you like me to say to him?